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τύρβη , ἡ,
A.disorder, confusion, tumult, “τύρβην παρέχειν τινί” Hp. Fract.22; “τὴν τύρβην ἐν ᾗ ζῶμεν” Isoc.15.130, cf. X.Cyr.1.2.3, Plb. 1.67.3, etc.
II. metaph., ἡ ποιητικὴ τ. the poetic rout, Epicur. Fr.228; so of a Bacchic festival and its dance, Paus.2.24.6: hence, acc. to Suid., = ἀπόλαυσις, revelry. [Oxyt. in some codd. of Hp. l.c.; the form σύρβη is cited by Suid., Eust.871.60.] (Cf. Lat. turba, O Norse pyrpask 'crowd together'.)
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Isocrates, Antidosis, 130
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.24.6
    • Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 1.2.3
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.67.3
    • Hippocrates, De fracturis, 22
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